The attack of the unexpected – When the future begins

We live as prisoners of the present with our minds preoccupied by headlines and deadlines. Yet a progressive future depends on our ability to create, not just compete. Architects are, by nature, long-term thinkers and this talk will focus on some thinking tools as to how the world changes, how we can navigate in turbulent times and how we can create, not just compete, for a better tomorrow.

Intended audience :
Anyone who spends their day thinking about the future.

Key takeaways :

The world changes slowly

Maybe gardening is a better metaphor than architecture in software development

The most important tools to create change are experimentation, failure recycling and persistence.

Magnus Lindkvist is a trendspotter and futurologist based in Zürich. His bestselling book "Everything We Know is Wrong" (2009) has been translated into ten languages including Chinese, Korean, Spanish and German. His latest book is "When The Future Begins" about how to think long-term in a world stuck in the present.

Magnus is one of the world’s most sought-after speakers on trends and future-thinking. He was selected as Speaker of The Year in Sweden in 2010.

Architecture - an integrated part of our business strategy and development

Architecture - an integral part of the transaction planning and development . A journey of change that addresses a specific case where the architecture is established in collaboration with business-driven initiative and gradually integrated with other frameworks and governance processes within the organization. The continued establishment of the architecture has become a group-wide support to coordinate the transaction requirements for locomotion.

Charlote Frank - involved most of my career at the intersection of business and IT. The focus has been the practice and governance processes within organizations to establish support and control of the business activity and IT development. My current role is Chief Architect with responsibility for Folksam's business architecture and in the process has worked in close dialogue with the business and development of business strategies and business plans. My responsibilities include leading Folksam's business architects to establish a liaison with the business units and central units to support the management and coordination of the deal of change and the continued establishment of architecture capability.

The role of architecture in setting requirements in buyer organization(Presentation in Swedish)

In May 2011, the Stockholm Transport Administration went through an across the board reorganization with the goal of getting even more efficient in its role as a pure buyer organization. One of the outcomes of this transition was the start of the architecture initiative mainly within the IT domain. In this presentation we will follow the exciting challenges the architecture team are dealing with in incorporating the infrastructure for public transport as a part of an EA initiative.

Key takeaways:

Working with EA in a less mature environment

Focus on pragmatic quick-wins vs. textbook best practice.

When IT is not traditional IT

Malou Järgården works as the Business Architect at the Stockholm Transport Administration. She has worked as a business architect for the Social Security Administration and the implementation of SAP. She has a deep knowledge of process architecture and is used to work in politically governed organizations. She is passionate about efficiency, clarity and making the decision-making process easy for top-management.

Sina Moghaddassi is currently working as Chief IT-Architect at the Stockholm Transport Administration. He has earlier worked as Senior Business analyst and responsible for the Business Analysis Team for the Business Area “Embedded Systems” at Scania AB. Sina is passionate about using architecture as an efficient tool for business and IT-development.

The road to Architecture Maturity in a highly federated multi-regional Architecture Landscape

Nordea did embark a focused road to maturing architecture during 2011, now 2 years later there are some conclusions and learnings ta share and also a clearer way forward.

Key takeaways:

How to organize a programme rolling out EA

EA tool choices

EA processes and services

Max Fischer has working as an enterprise architect and manager of architects for the last 8 years, with task as Head of EA Implementation and Chief CRM Architect in TeliaSonera, Enterprise Business Architect in SEB, Head of Business IT Architecture and Lead EA in Nordea Group Functions, and latest Chief Enterprise Architect and process owner of Architecture and IT Strategy in Nordea. Max has always strived to make architecture tangible and always architect with the consumer in mind, focusing on simplifying a complex world. Max is reporting to the CTO in Nordea.

Enterprise architecture to the boardroom

Harmen van den Berg, Manager BiZZdesign (presentation in English)

Enterprise architecture provides direction and substance to changes in strategy and business operations. The enterprise architect is operating in a network of related disciplines like strategic management, requirements management and portfolio management. The added value of enterprise architecture is to interrelate these disciplines in a consistent manner. This added value is consolidated in better models, analyses and recommendations for adjusting policy and projects in order to reach the desired organisational goals. However, it is non-trivial to translate models and analyses into recommendations for management.

We show how enterprise architecture models, expressed in the ArchiMate language, form the basis for portfolio management, and how they support strategic decision making. Portfolio management is integrated with enterprise architecture by defining portfolios as views on the architecture. We demonstrate, based on examples from various organizations, how such an architecture-based portfolio management approach leads to precise, yet highly flexible portfolios. Based on a consistent set of models, we derive both quantitative (e.g. cost analysis) and qualitative (e.g. impact of change) information that addresses stakeholders' concerns. Visualisation of this information is done in dashboards that are aligned with responsibilities and concerns of stakeholders.

Harmen van den Berg studied mathematics at the Utrecht University, and did his PhD at Twente University. He was an assistent professor at Twente University, and scientific researcher at Telematica Instituut. At BiZZdesign, Harmen developed methods and techniques for business process engineering and enterprise architecture, and applied these as consultant at various organizations. Harmen is now responsible for Enterprise Architecture and training development. He has authored several publications on EA and BPM, and is chair of the Dutch ArchiMate Usage working group. He is ArchiMate-certified, and trainer of ArchiMate courses. Harmen is a speaker at many EA-conferences, like LAC, EAC, EAM, and The Open Group.

Harmen van den Berg, Manager BiZZdesign (Presentation in English)

15.55 - 16.40

The largest EA project in the world?

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The largest EA project in the world?

The goal of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program is to completely overhaul the European airspace and its Air Traffic Management (ATM). Contrary to the United States, Europe does not have a single sky, one in which air navigation is managed at the European level. Furthermore, European airspace is among the busiest in the world with over 33,000 flights on busy days and high airport density. This makes air traffic control even more complex.

The EU Single European Sky is an ambitious initiative launched by the European Commission in 2004 to reform the architecture of European air traffic management. It proposes a legislative approach to meet future capacity and safety needs at a European rather than a local level.

With a budget of more than 2 billion euros and around 300 projects it can be seen as the largest enterprise architecture project in the world right now creating an enterprise architecture and a roadmap for implementing the new ways of doing ATM cross Europe.

The presentation will explain how such a large EA project is organized, performed and measured. It will also show how it relates to TOGAF and ways of using TOGAF in an agile way.

Mats Gejnevall from Combitech has been working with enterprise architecture for the last 15 years helping organisations setting up EA capabilities, leading and performing enterprise architecture projects in various sectors as telecommunication, government and industries.